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The Clippers dressed hurriedly in their locker room late Monday night inside Target Center, trying to beat an approaching snowstorm so they could head home to Southern California. They had already weathered a tougher challenge by coming back to defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 110-105, after looking beat for much of the final three quarters. Here are five takeaways from the game: 1. The Clippers avoided being tripped up. A trip that got off to a rough start with a loss to Houston finished with three consecutive victories, all of them significant. The Clippers showed they could win grind-it-out, playoff-style games against Memphis and Chicago before overcoming a flurry of injuries...

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